“Net neutrality” isn’t something new — it happens to be the way the Internet has always worked. What has changed is that certain ISPs want to change the rules of the game, count things they shouldn’t and charge people they shouldn’t as many times as they please.

A good public letter would tell Minnesotans exactly why the Teamsters want to keep Jane Schmo from her brewski one day out of the week. Arguing for the sanctity of the work week, or outing the anonymous liquor wholesaler they claim is actually the bad guy threatening union jobs, might have had some cachet. But Radzak failed to demonstrate for the public interest, just why the Teamsters care so much whether people can buy alcohol on Sundays.

To a policy analyst, the letter reads entirely like a he-said-she-said; one can clearly see a personal animosity, and a desire to reverse public misconceptions, but facts and references for the public to follow up on are not there. The scathing tone over what essentially is a single policy disagreement gives the appearance that the Teamsters cannot tolerate dissent.

It’s unclear if the election campaign in Ontario is actually going to change anything. The current projection from 308 shows the Liberals hovering around even to +1 seat, the Tories even to +2, and the NDP lagging at -2 to even.

Barring a phenomenal surge for one of the camps in the last two weeks, the power balance in the Ontario Parliament isn’t moving, and the budget that the Liberals are planning to re-introduce won’t pass the new assembly, unless they decide to change it until one or both of the opposition parties see something they like.

The heir to the throne is in Winnipeg today, closing out a brief tour of Canada. It’s a bit spendy for the government to zip the royals around the country every so often, but hey, at least… photo-ops? It’s certainly not as expensive and wasteful as the Senate.

A new poll shows that Ryan Taylor and Doug Goehring are on equal footing going into the summer. According to the Mellman Group poll commissioned by the League, both candidates enjoy 36% support and Independent voters aren’t breaking either way as of yet. As of yet, there’s been very little excitement in the campaign — so who is going to pick up 15% from the middle here?

CBC reports that graduate student fees are set to skyrocket 165% for two consecutive years at the University of Manitoba, turning an affordable destination for graduate studies into just another smash-and-grab against the millennial generation.

Dakota Growers Pasta was an honest, farmer-owned outfit once. You could get 2 pounds of spaghetti in a box for a fair price — a price that was cheaper in North Dakota than anywhere else in the world.

But somewhere along the line, Jack Dalrymple and other hollow-hearted business suits got hold of it and started selling pasta big-city style, giving it away on The Price is Right and other nonsense, and making the ridiculous claim that Dreamfields whole wheat pasta was almost entirely indigestible.

Dakota Growers Pasta suddenly crept up the aisle — what was once the affordable 75-cent box suddenly became a $3 luxury, and that was when Dakota Growers Pasta left my diet for good.